Eurodad (the European Network on Debt and Development) is a network of 46 civil society organisations (CSOs) from 19 European countries, which works for transformative yet specific changes to global and European policies, institutions, rules and structures to ensure a democratically controlled, environmentally sustainable financial and economic system that works to eradicate poverty and ensure human rights for all.

Our focus is on strengthening the power of European CSOs, working as part of a global movement to push governments and powerful institutions to adopt transformative changes to the global economic and financial system.

Eurodad's Strategic Plan sets ambitious goals to help achieve: tax justice to stem the loss of resources in developing countries; ending debt crises that hinder economic progress; effective aid that will transform lives; publicly-backed private finance and investment agreements that accelerate development results; climate finance that is responsive to the climate adaptation and mitigation priorities of developing countries; and financial sector rules that promote prosperity and do no harm. Eurodad also has crosscutting priorities, which we integrate into all our work, of gender equality, global economic good governance, and responsible finance standards.

The main institutions targeted by the Eurodad network include European governments,
the World Bank, the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development.

Eurodad's vision is a world with:

Economic justice for all – an end to relative poverty and to the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few.

Fair, democratic, accountable and transparent governance – at local, national, regional and global level where all countries have a say, and all people can exercise their right to participate.

Finance that serves the people – and helps ensure human rights for all, and an environmentally sustainable planet. This means it is publicly regulated to meet social ends and recognise environmental limits, and enhances systems of redistribution to ensure economic justice.

Eurodad's key strengths include:

Our deep and detailed understanding of the issues we work on.

Our respected position with other allies and civil society networks, and our work with global and regional coalitions, in particular, our ability to develop joint strategies within our membership network, and our strong cooperation with allies from the global south.

We adopt a flexible approach to the role we play, ensuring we focus on what our most useful contribution can be – in any given situation – to making the desired transformative policy change happen, recognising the strengths of our members and partners. We prioritise cooperation with partners from the global south, seeking to work in partnership whenever possible, to listen to and respect their priorities, and to try to align ourselves to those.

Eurodad has existed since 1990 and has been registered as a non-profit organisation in Belgium since 2005. Full information on Eurodad’s funding and finances is available in ourannual reports.

Eurodad staff are formally accountable to the network members through two main routes: the General Assembly and the Board.
These bodies are described here.

General Assembly

Eurodad has a General Assembly of its members at least once per year. This is the time when all member organisations
can help determine the strategic direction and management of Eurodad. At General Assemblies the main tasks of Eurodad
member group representatives are to:

elect board members;

elect new Eurodad member groups;

approve financial reports and budgets;

debate and approve annual workplans and Eurodad's Strategic Plan.

Board of Directors

Eurodad’s work is overseen by the Board. The Board consists of between five and twelve people, drawn from member organisations and
elected for three-year terms by members at the General Assembly. The board provides guidance to the staff on the substance,
priorities and modalities of the network’s programme, as well as on financial and grant management, organisational development, and human resources issues. The board
normally meets four times per year.

The current members of the Board are as follows: (organisation, country, representative)

Alessandra Garda

Alessandra Garda

Alessandra joined Eurodad in September 2012 as Grants Officer. She supports policy staff by managing projects and liaising with partners. Before joining Eurodad, Alessandra worked as a Project Officer and Social Affairs Policy Advisor for the Representation of Veneto region to the EU. She has also worked in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, dealing with international cooperation issues. Alessandra studied International Relations and Human Rights at Padua University and holds a postgraduate diploma in European policies and project management. Italian is her mother tongue and she speaks English, French and Spanish.

Antonia Vorner

Antonia Vorner

Antonia joined Eurodad in March 2016 as Grants, Finance and Office Manager. She leads the finance and office team who is responsible for ensuring that Eurodad remains well funded, that grants, finances, human and other resources are managed effectively, and that the organisation continues to develop. Before joining Eurodad, Antonia held similar roles in the Belgian Transition Network and Carbon Market Watch. She also worked for a European Commission project management unit responsible for tendering procedures and managed capacity building and development education projects in Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Central America and South East Asia. Antonia studied Law at the University of Vienna with a specialisation in European and Comparative Law. German is her mother tongue and she speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.

Bodo Ellmers

Bodo Ellmers

Bodo joined Eurodad in 2009 as Policy and Advocacy Officer. He is now leading Eurodad’s work on debt, financial governance, and responsible financing. This involves research and advocacy, coordinating members and liaising with partners. Before he took over this portfolio, he was in charge of Eurodad’s work on aid and governance for several years, leading among others the campaigns on the OECD aid effectiveness process and the UN Development Cooperation Forum.
Before Bodo joined Eurodad, he was the Policy Officer of “Deine Stimme gegen Armut”, the German branch of the Global Call to Action against Poverty campaign which is hosted by the national NGO platform VENRO. He also worked as an independent advisor for different civil society organizations such as Concord, VENRO, Global Policy Forum Europe, Eurodad member WEED, and for the UN Millennium Campaign.
Bodo has studied political science and development economics at Free University Berlin. German is his mother tongue, he is proficient in English, and speaks some Spanish and French.

Dominique Monti

Dominique Monti

Dominique Monti works as a volunteer in Eurodad. After having studied economics at the University of Grenoble (France), she worked in Paris for a publishing company for 15 years. Then she settled in Belgium where she worked for a database company. In order to have other aspects of working life than just from the private sector, she collaborates with the Eurodad team as a volunteer and deals with administration and translation.

Jasper De Meyer

Jasper De Meyer

Jasper
joined Eurodad in 2016 as Policy and Advocacy Officer on tax justice. He
carries out policy research, analysis and advocacy on global tax issues, with a
special focus on the European Union.

Before
joining Eurodad, Jasper worked at a political consultancy in the United
Kingdom, advising UK-based trade associations and financial services institutions
on the EU legislative and regulatory landscape and how to engage with
policymakers in the European Union. He has also worked as an assistant in economic
policy and financial regulation at the Party of European Socialists.

Jasper
holds an MA in Global Development and International Political Economy from the
University of Leeds. He also holds a BA in Economics and Development Studies
from the University of Manchester. Jasper is fluent in English and Dutch and
speaks conversational French.

Jeroen Kwakkenbos

Jeroen Kwakkenbos

Jeroen joined Eurodad in March 2011 as a Policy and Advocacy Officer. He works on private sector development finance, aid effectiveness, and poverty eradication. His brief involves research, analysis, and advocacy work, as well as keeping members of the network informed of what’s going on regarding these issues.
Before coming to Eurodad, Jeroen worked at the International Trade Union Confederation United Nations headquarters where he engaged in policy and advocacy work. His focus was on assuring that decent work and social protection were well represented in UN documents, and was involved in Financing for Development (FfD). Jeroen has travelled and worked extensively in developing countries, researching projects in Bangladesh, Morocco and China, and has travelled throughout Africa, Southern, and Eastern Asia. He has a Master’s degree in International Affairs from The New School in New York City, and an undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville New York.

Jeronimo Ruiz Victoria

Jeronimo Ruiz Victoria

Jeronimo joined Eurodad on April of 2013 as a Grants & Admin Officer. He supports the general management of the office, IT compliance, financial aspects of grants management and he is in charge of organising events.
Before joining Eurodad Jeronimo worked in management within the private sector in Mexico. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo in Mexico and also a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Jonkoping International Business School in Sweden. He speaks Spanish as his native language as well as English.

Jesse Griffiths

Jesse Griffiths

Jesse became Eurodad Director in April 2012 and oversees the work of the team, including strategic planning, fundraising, network building, research and advocacy.
Jesse was previously the Coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project since 2008. Prior to that he headed ActionAid UK’s aid and development finance policy group, worked for the UK Department For International Development (DFID) in Nigeria, and in their environment policy department, as well as for other NGOs in the UK and elsewhere on both development finance and international environmental policy.

Julia Ravenscroft

Julia Ravenscroft

Julia joined Eurodad in
October 2013 as Communications and Funding Manager. She is responsible for all
communications work including the website, social media, media liaison,
publications and the newsletter. Julia previously managed the communications work
of the European advocacy network Action for Global Health. She also worked for
several years as a media officer for the UK-based NGO Refugee Action and is a
former newspaper journalist.

Kami Tiba

Kami Tiba

Kami joined Eurodad in February of 2017 as Events, Admin and Fundraising Assistant. She supports the Grants, Finance and Office team with general management, events organization, recruitment and fundraising. Before joining Eurodad, Kami participated in junior enterprises in Brazil and has also worked in the private sector. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the Federal University of Ceará and is currently studying an MBA in Quality Management at Estácio de Sá University. Portuguese is her mother tongue and she speaks English, French and Spanish.

María José Romero

María José Romero

María José joined Eurodad in July 2012 as a Policy and Advocacy Officer working on Private finance and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). Her role involves research and analysis, advocacy and monitoring policy developments.
Before joining Eurodad, María José worked at the secretariat of the Latin American Network on Debt, Development and Rights (Latindadd), based in Peru, on tax justice and development finance. She has also worked at Eurodad before as a maternity leave replacement on tax justice. For five years she was Coordinator of the IFIs Latin American Monitor project at the Third World Institute (ITeM), based in Uruguay, where her main roles were networking and policy monitoring at a regional and global level on IFI-related issues and development finance.
María José has a degree in political science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and is master candidate in political science from the same university. Her mother tongue is Spanish and she speaks fluent English.

Mark Perera

Mark Perera

Mark joined Eurodad in July 2017 as Senior Networking and Advocacy Officer. He is part of the team taking forward Eurodad’s work on preventing and resolving debt crises, which includes developing and strengthening civil society capacity to work on debt-related issues. Before joining Eurodad, Mark worked as Project Manager and EU Advocacy Coordinator for Amnesty International in Brussels. He has worked for many years in civil society, including as Lead Researcher and Advocate for the Transparency International EU Office, and in the youth and conflict resolution fields. Mark holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Bristol. His mother tongue is English, and he also speaks French, passable Swedish, and a smattering of Spanish.

Martin Atkin

Martin Atkin

Martin Atkin is an experienced journalist and communications expert. Previous jobs include spells at the BBC, ITN, Sky News, Greenpeace, WWF and Fairtrade. He has also acted as consultant to numerous organisations including Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières and several UN and EU institutions. Martin is leading our communications work while our Communications Manager is on maternity leave.

Natalia Mielech

Natalia Mielech

Natalia Mielech works at Eurodad as a Communications Associate.

Before joining Eurodad Natalia worked for Brussels-based
consultancies and organisations where she was in charge of digital
communications and project management. Natalia has a degree in European Law and
she completed a postgraduate programme in Communications. She speaks English, French and Polish.

Polly Meeks

Polly Meeks

Polly joined Eurodad in spring 2017 to work on Official Development Assistance.

Polly began her career at the UK National Audit Office, where she qualified as an accountant, before moving on to wider scrutiny work on international aid, official statistics, social protection and tax administration. After a secondment to the UK Parliament International Development Committee, Polly joined ADD International, a disability rights organisation, where, among other responsibilities, she led a work-stream on disability-inclusive development finance for a coalition of global disability INGOs.

Polly is a native English speaker; she also speaks French, some German, Russian and Japanese, and is learning Luganda.

Sachan Kumar

Sachan Kumar

Sachan joined Eurodad in February 2017 as Finance and HR officer. He is responsible for Eurodad’s accountancy and helping to manage Eurodad’s finances and human resources. Before joining Eurodad, Sachan spent 6 years working as Finance Administrator for the European NGO Confederation for relief and development (CONCORD). He has also worked with CONCORD as a Finance and Administration Officer for the European Year for Development 2015 project (EYD2015). Sachan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Management from the Ecole pratique des hautes études commerciales (EPHEC) in Brussels. He speaks French, English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Tove Maria Ryding

Tove Maria Ryding

Tove joined Eurodad in March 2013 as Senior Policy Analyst. She works on capital flight and tax issues and carries out policy research, analysis and advocacy as well as coordination and communications work.
Before joining Eurodad Tove worked with Greenpeace International as coordinator for climate policy. She’s also been chair of the Danish 92 Group for 5 years and head of the Danish NGO Forests of the World for 3 years. Tove speaks Danish, Swedish and English.

Alliances

Eurodad is grateful to all its network members and to other funders who have made it possible to carry out the work presented in this report. They are listed below.

As advocates for transparency and public access to information, Eurodad discloses additional financial information beyond what is legally required, including a detailed overview of grant income by donor and grant purpose.

The 2016 financial statements were audited by an external auditor, Saskia Luteijn Bedrijfsrevisor BV BVBA, in accordance with the financial reporting framework applicable in Belgium. You can access a copy of the Auditor’s report here.